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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966

People

Pauline Nyiramasuhuko age 10
Yoshihito, Prince Katsura age 8
Hanako, Princess Hitachi age 16
Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia age 64
Lennart Bernadotte age 47
Walther Nehring age 64
Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin age 65
Soong Ai-ling age 67
Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (born 1891) age 65
Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg age 69
Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt age 58
Philipp Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg age 62
Lady Pamela Hicks age 27
Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz age 20
Johan Ferner age 29
Princess Marie Louise of Bulgaria age 23
Richard Russell Jr. age 58
Ted Strickland age 15
Phil Bredesen age 12
Norman Tebbit age 25
Jim Guy Tucker age 13
Mika Špiljak age 39
Arthur Goldberg age 48
Clark Clifford age 49
Robert A. Lovett age 60
Mohammad Rabbani age 11 months
Ylli Bufi age 8
Mehdi Frashëri age 84
Ali ibn Flais age 11
Youssef Yousfi age 14
Simon Vratsian age 74
A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury age 23
Abu Sayeed Chowdhury age 35
Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem age 40
Moudud Ahmed age 16
Errol Barrow age 36
Hyenadz Navitski age 7
Kinzang Dorji age 5
Juan Pereda age 25
Mamerto Urriolagoitía age 60
Stefan Sofiyanski age 4
Penn Nouth age 50
Delwa Kassiré Koumakoye age 6
Bruno Tshibala age 6 months
Carlos Arroyo age 62
Tesfaye Genre Kidan age 19
Timoci Bavadra age 21
Penaia Ganilau age 38
Urho Castrén age 69
Casimir Oyé-Mba age 14
Otar Patsatsia age 27
Hudson Austin age 18
Jacques-Édouard Alexis age 8
Fritz Jean age 7 months
Lajos Dinnyés age 55
Björn Þórðarson age 77
Hugh Shearer age 33
Adnan Badran age 20
Mudar Badran age 22
Akejan Kajegeldin age 4
Sergey Tereshchenko age 5
Phoumi Vongvichit age 47
Mamohato of Lesotho age 15
Albertas Šimėnas age 6
Omer Beriziky age 5
Paul Boffa age 66
Mustafa Ould Salek age 20
Mohammed Ben Aarafa age 70
Mário da Graça Machungo age 15
Adriano Maleiane age 6
Norman Kirk age 33
Hong Song-nam age 26
Isidore Mvouba age 2
Alexandru Athanasiu age 1
Jean Kambanda age 10 months
Marcella Liburd age 3
Ján Čarnogurský age 12
Josip Vidmar age 60
Johan Kraag age 43
Marcel Pilet-Golaz age 66
Alphons Egli age 31
Leon Schlumpf age 31
Rashidi Kawawa age 30
Hédi Baccouche age 26
Sadi Irmak age 52
Filoimea Telito age 11
Andrés Martínez Trueba age 72
Luis Batlle Berres Pérez age 58
Utkir Tukhtamurodovich Sultonov age 17
Harmodio Arias Madrid age 70
Natalicio González age 58
Rafael Franco age 59
Abdirizak Haji Hussein age 31
Lee Beom-seok age 55
Babiker Awadalla age 39
César Villanueva age 10
Rosario Fernández age 9 months
Xu Xiangqian age 54
Seán Lester age 67
Donald Regan age 37
Lyman Lemnitzer age 57
Raymond T. Odierno age 1
Nicholas F. Brady age 26
Otozō Yamada age 74
Nebojša Pavković age 10
Thomas Cassin Kinkaid age 68
Saad el-Shazly age 34
Gholam Ali Rasheed age 2
Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu age 51
Takako Shimazu age 17
Dündar Ali Osman age 25
Luo Ronghuan age 53
Chiang Wei-kuo age 39
Franz Wilhelm Prinz von Preussen age 12
Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria age 38
Archduke Felix of Austria age 40
Song Hye-rim age 17
Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 59
Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse age 30
George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood age 33
Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein age 65
Marianne Bernadotte age 32
Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia age 56
Herbert H. Lehman age 78
Džemal Bijedić age 39
Branko Mikulić age 28
Zeng Qinghong age 17
Rong Yiren age 40
Nicholas Katzenbach age 34
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 48
Ibrahim Biçakçiu age 50
Redha Malek age 24
Abdelmalek Benhabyles age 35
Lúcio Lara age 27
Mohammad Mohammadullah age 34
Elliott Belgrave age 25
Mikhail Chyhir age 8
Syarhei Linh age 19
Celso Torrelio age 23
Alberto Natusch age 23
David Toro age 58
Lyuben Berov age 30
Prince Louis Rwagasore of Burundi age 24
Daniel Oduber Quirós age 35
Teodoro Picado Michalski age 56
Franjo Gregurić age 16
Hrvoje Šarinić age 21
Carlos Manuel Piedra age 61
Joseph Iléo age 34
Eliud Williams age 8
Antonio Imbert Barrera age 35
Atef Sedki age 26
Ali Lutfi Mahmud age 20
Álvaro Magaña age 30
Mahendra Chaudhry age 14
Nii Amaa Ollennu age 50
Konstantinos Kollias age 55
Panagiotis Pipinelis age 57
Eric Gairy age 34
Kabiné Komara age 6
Cellou Dalein Diallo age 4
Evans Paul age 9 months
Jean-Jacques Honorat age 25
Juan Manuel Gálvez age 69
Sa'dun Hammadi age 26
Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio age 5
Howard Cooke age 40
Zeid bin Shaker age 21
Ieremia Tabai age 6
Ishenbai Kadyrbekov age 7
Sisavath Keobounphanh age 28
Augusts Kirhenšteins age 83
Valdis Birkavs age 14
Abdul Ati al-Obeidi age 16
George Borg Olivier age 45
Ahmed Bahnini age 47
Mohammed Karim Lamrani age 37
Maati Bouabid age 28
Ahmed Osman age 26
Khin Nyunt age 16
San Yu age 38
Sao Shwe Thaik age 59
Geoffrey Palmer age 14
Emiliano Chamorro Vargas age 85
Ngiratkel Etpison age 31
Adelino da Palma Carlos age 51
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 101
Ion Gigurtu age 70
Edmund Lawrence age 24
Nikola Šainović age 7
Dragan Tomić age 20
Östen Undén age 70
Rudolf Gnägi age 39
Hans-Peter Tschudi age 42
Pierre Aubert age 29
Georges-André Chevallaz age 41
Pierre Graber age 47
Ahmad al-Khatib age 23
Jamil Mardam Bey age 63
Sean Chen age 6